Tuesday, August 20, 2013

At the Music Hall: The Sun Has Got His Hat On, 1932



The sun has got his hat on, hip-hip-hip-hooray
The sun has got his hat on and he's coming out today
Now we'll all be happy, hip-hip-hip-hooray
The sun has got his hat on and he's coming out to play.
So jump into your sunbath, hip-hip-hip-hooray
The sun has got his hat on and he's coming out today
All the little birds are singing
All the little gnats are stinging
All the little bees in twos and threes
Buzzing in the sun all day

The Sun Has Got His Hat On found a new place in popular culture as one of the main songs in the 1990s revival of the musical Me and My Girl. The song was written by Noel Gay and Ralph Butler and recorded for the first time in 1932 by Ambrose and his Orchestra, with vocals by Sam Browne.

Singer Sam Browne (1898 – 1972) was an English dance band singer, and can be considered one of the most popular British dance band vocalists of the 1930s. He is best known for singing with Jack Hylton and with Ambrose and his Orchestra, at the Mayfair Hotel and Embassy Club.


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